IT Solutions Release Manager

Overview

IT Solutions Release Manager - Mid-senior • Full-time

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

The group’s key figures are approximately: Turnover of 6.5 billion euros, more than 940 laboratories in 62 countries and around 62,000 employees.

Summary

The Release Manager role will be responsible for deploying builds across the environment, onboarding new environments, handling transversal projects, and creating release management related documents and sharing release plans with the stakeholders.

• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Facilitate release activities across all releases, ensuring quality and timely deployments across environments
• Maintain the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including QA plans, schedule, and scope changes
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews with stakeholders
• Produce Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans
• Participate in CAB meetings to present Production changes (RFCs)
• Lead and coordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists
• Weekly Release Reporting with Program release manager
• Own and continually improve the release process by documenting release issues and developing plans to improve processes, able to recommend continuous improvements (e.g., automation)
• Comfortable in interacting with people across hierarchical levels for smooth project execution. Enjoys managing complex projects involving challenges.

• English language is mandatory to collaborate in a global environment, including writing, speaking and presenting
• Understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration (CD/CI) pipelines
• Good understanding of cloud deployment, preferably Azure, and Agile practice
• Knowledge of Deployment tools like Octopus
• Knowledge of MS Project, Excel-Macros
• Document Management to adhere to Audit Compliance processes is an added advantage
• 4 to 5 years of relevant release and deployment management experience
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams towards task completion
• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
• Strong troubleshooting and organizational skills with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously

• Database: MSSQL
• Ticketing Tools: ServiceNow
• CI and Build Deployment Tools: Octopus Deploy
• Monitoring tools: Grafana

Monday to Friday - 08:00 to 17:00 Hybrid Work